Highlights from Alexander Group’s European Growth Summit
There is a growing body of research pointing to a fundamental shift in B2B buying behavior which is forcing sales organizations to adapt their go-to-customer sales models.
The fundamental shift in B2B buying behavior is forcing change for sales organizations across industries and geographies. The customer experience is more digital, starts sooner, continues well after the sale and involves far more influencers both inside and outside the company. With the exception of some highly complex and innovative solutions, the traditional sales model that relies on a core seller as the primary educator and influencer in the sales process no longer works. Sales leaders must evaluate their investments, and allocate more to pre- and post-sale resources and activities.
Alexander Group recently hosted our third European Growth Summit in London with senior EMEA revenue leaders. The Summit attendees all agreed, revenue leaders must proactively adapt their sales models to new buyer behaviors. While go-to-customer strategies differ from one company to the next, the actions revenue leaders can take are largely the same:
Revenue leaders who adapt their sales models to fit the new go-to-customer mandate and align their resources to serve their customers better will uncover new ways to unlock revenue. Alexander Group is here to help.
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Original author: Paul Vinogradov
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References:
12014 State of B2B Procurement study from the Acquity Group
2Social Buying Meets Social Selling, Kathleen Schaub, April 2015
3Google/Millward Brown Digital, “B2B Path to Purchase Study,” 2014
4Frost & Sullivan
5Frederick Reichheld